Last week I came home from shopping one weeknight and Jim told me that
there had been a huge moth on the deck. He added that it might be there
still. I dropped everything and went out to have a look. Lucky for me,
the moth was still on our deck. I sat and looked at it for a while, and
then went for my camera.
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| Look at the legs on that thing. The legs seem tarantula-like |
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| The undercarriage, or as close as I dared to get to underneath it without scaring it |
It's a polyphemus moth.
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| That's Paul's hand as a comparison. Paul got close enough to pet the furry patch on the body, although the moth didn't like that very much and jumped back a few inches--but didn't fly away. |
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| What a pretty insect! |
The moth just sat there for a few hours. It was gone the next morning. I wonder where it went. I would have liked to see it fly.
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